Mayor Confident in Future: Mayor Albert Boutwell stands in downtown Birmingham, the scene of racial demonstrations last spring. The mayor says he is confident that such problems will be solved peacefully and the city's economic health maintained.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: Associated Press stamp and date stamp.

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• Albert Boutwell
• Birmingham
• Civil Rights Movements
• Demonstrations
• Economic Concepts
• Injustice
• Male Portraits
• Racial Discrimination
• Street Scenes

• Image Dimensions: 6 15/16 x 9 1/4 in. (17.62 x 23.5 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/8 x 10 in. (20.64 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen